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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8938075" data-attributes="member: 6750306"><p>As I was born in 1972, my parents practiced the sort of free-range parenting that was popular back then, and, being what you might charitably call "precocious", I was exposed to a lot of things at a somewhat younger age than those things might have been meant for, heh... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> </p><p></p><p></p><p>D&D and Star Wars, about when I was 8, or so... 1980 (?)</p><p></p><p>D&D - one of my little brother's friends came over to our house to hang out, and the friend's older brother had his driver's license so got stuck having to drive him over and stay the whole time. Older brother brought his blue box Basic set with him and ran a game for us. I got my own copy of the magenta box when I was 10.</p><p>Star Wars - I know I saw the original film before seeing Empire, but apparently the first one wasn't released until '84 on vhs and Empire came out in '80.</p><p>Since I also know that I saw both of them at the local drive in, either A) My parents went to see it when I was 5, which seems unlikely, B) the local was showing A New Hope at some point long after it's original release, or C) I saw them as a double-feature when Empire was released. I remember having some of the original Star Wars toys, but I'm not sure when I first picked them up.</p><p></p><p>It was also around the same age, 8 or 9, that I began reading comic books - I used to have whole shoe boxes full of X-Men comics from as far back as the late '70's, and a handful of older stuff (mostly war comics) going back to the '60's.</p><p></p><p>Star Trek - I was aware of the original series but had only seen a couple of episodes of that and the animated series and probably read a comic book or two when I finally got around to seeing the first film on HBO or VHS sometime in the very early '80's.</p><p></p><p>Battlestar Galactica - I had a bunch of the comic books and toys, and saw a number of the original series episodes in reruns in the early '80's.</p><p></p><p>Dr. Who - I was vaguely aware of its existence in the '80's - I saw maybe three or four episodes in reruns, but never got into it.</p><p></p><p>CAR WARS - I was introduced to the game by a guy I met in college in '90.</p><p></p><p>M:tG - I started with the Revised set not long after it came out - the previously-mentioned college friend and I had been introduced to it during our short-lived participation in the local SCA.</p><p></p><p>I got involved in Rocky Horror back in '97, although I'd first seen it in '91.</p><p></p><p>D&D video games - my first PC D&D game was Baldur's Gate in 1998.</p><p></p><p>Elder Scrolls - the first game I played was Morrowind in 2002...</p><p></p><p>Never read Earth Sea, but I did read the first two Potter books on plane flights, coming and going from a Rocky Horror Picture Show convention in 2003.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 8938075, member: 6750306"] As I was born in 1972, my parents practiced the sort of free-range parenting that was popular back then, and, being what you might charitably call "precocious", I was exposed to a lot of things at a somewhat younger age than those things might have been meant for, heh... :p D&D and Star Wars, about when I was 8, or so... 1980 (?) D&D - one of my little brother's friends came over to our house to hang out, and the friend's older brother had his driver's license so got stuck having to drive him over and stay the whole time. Older brother brought his blue box Basic set with him and ran a game for us. I got my own copy of the magenta box when I was 10. Star Wars - I know I saw the original film before seeing Empire, but apparently the first one wasn't released until '84 on vhs and Empire came out in '80. Since I also know that I saw both of them at the local drive in, either A) My parents went to see it when I was 5, which seems unlikely, B) the local was showing A New Hope at some point long after it's original release, or C) I saw them as a double-feature when Empire was released. I remember having some of the original Star Wars toys, but I'm not sure when I first picked them up. It was also around the same age, 8 or 9, that I began reading comic books - I used to have whole shoe boxes full of X-Men comics from as far back as the late '70's, and a handful of older stuff (mostly war comics) going back to the '60's. Star Trek - I was aware of the original series but had only seen a couple of episodes of that and the animated series and probably read a comic book or two when I finally got around to seeing the first film on HBO or VHS sometime in the very early '80's. Battlestar Galactica - I had a bunch of the comic books and toys, and saw a number of the original series episodes in reruns in the early '80's. Dr. Who - I was vaguely aware of its existence in the '80's - I saw maybe three or four episodes in reruns, but never got into it. CAR WARS - I was introduced to the game by a guy I met in college in '90. M:tG - I started with the Revised set not long after it came out - the previously-mentioned college friend and I had been introduced to it during our short-lived participation in the local SCA. I got involved in Rocky Horror back in '97, although I'd first seen it in '91. D&D video games - my first PC D&D game was Baldur's Gate in 1998. Elder Scrolls - the first game I played was Morrowind in 2002... Never read Earth Sea, but I did read the first two Potter books on plane flights, coming and going from a Rocky Horror Picture Show convention in 2003. [/QUOTE]
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